Mike Horan is the former Director of Instructional Technology for Sarasota County Schools. He was an educator in Sarasota Schools for over 20 years and is now a part of Promethean’s US Educational Strategic Team. Mike has been involved in the technology leadership for both the state of Florida and for the district for over the past 13 years and a successful classroom teacher before that for 7 years. He has led programs that have put laptop technology in the classroom, placed video conferencing resources at the schools, and developed online learning resources for student use at home. Mike and his team completed standardizing Sarasota classrooms with an ActivBoard+2 in each and every classroom within one year for a total of over 3,500 boards installed and over 4,000 teachers trained. This $14 million project in 2007 was the largest district wide install of interactive boards in the nation and included extensive integration training. Mike has also worked as a project manager for many of Promethean’s largest deployments such as San Diego, Fort Worth, etc. Mike lives in Sarasota with his wife, Mary Ann, and two children, fifteen-year-old daughter Riley and eleven year old son Michael.
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Mike Horan
TechInspired 2010 Keynote Presentation
Mike Horan is the former Director of Instructional Technology for Sarasota County Schools. He was an educator in Sarasota Schools for over 20 years and is now a part of Promethean’s US Educational Strategic Team. Mike has been involved in the technology leadership for both the state of Florida and for the district for over the past 13 years and a successful classroom teacher before that for 7 years. He has led programs that have put laptop technology in the classroom, placed video conferencing resources at the schools, and developed online learning resources for student use at home. Mike and his team completed standardizing Sarasota classrooms with an ActivBoard+2 in each and every classroom within one year for a total of over 3,500 boards installed and over 4,000 teachers trained. This $14 million project in 2007 was the largest district wide install of interactive boards in the nation and included extensive integration training. Mike has also worked as a project manager for many of Promethean’s largest deployments such as San Diego, Fort Worth, etc. Mike lives in Sarasota with his wife, Mary Ann, and two children, fifteen-year-old daughter Riley and eleven year old son Michael.